A few months ago, I discovered the Yume App. It's basically an app that is supposed to be for restaurants and cafes to reduce food waste by offering 50% off to customers to get rid of excess food they may have. Unfortunately, when I've checked the app, it seems to be the same venues offering the same thing daily.
Well, looks like they are pumping up their marketing and are offering $1 dishes from 20 hot restaurants around Melbourne. Before someone chimes in, the answer is no, not literally dishware but food items such as desserts mostly, some appetisers & mains. These appear to be one-off dishes for the day as I can't find them in their menus however this is a huge reduction in price for all of these items. OK, the deals:
| Restaurant | Suburb | Dish |
|---|---|---|
| Bomba | Melbourne | Jamon croquettes made using jamon offcuts |
| Botherambo | Richmond | Lime and coriander root sorbet |
| Grossi Florentino | Melbourne | Cassata gelato made with surplus candied orange peel |
| Pastuso | Melbourne | Hearty’ Peruvian Shepherd’s Pie or Peruvian Pudin |
| Pope Joan | Brunswick East | Soft-serve smoked milk ice-cream with freeze dried raspberries |
| Saint Crispin | Collingwood | Salad of beetroot tops and bottoms, shaved carrot ends, roasted walnuts, celery juice |
| San Telmo | Melbourne | Meatball + polenta fries or Lamb, prosciutto and broccoli empanada. |
| Agathe Patisserie | South Melbourne | Puddings and custard hearts made with pastry offcuts |
| Melbourne Farmers Market at The River Graze | Melbourne | Goulburn Valley peach slices donated by SPC, Timboon Vanilla Ice Cream (etc.etc.) |
| 400 Gradi | Brunswick East | Fig and mascarpone gelato |
| All Day Donuts | Brunswick | Little cups of donut holes |
| Mr. Tulk | Melbourne | Beef Empanadas | |
| Lamaro’s | South Melbourne | Crispy Greenvale Farm Pig Ears with carrot top romesco |
| The Botanical | South Yarra | Chickpea and spiced sweet potato fritter with coriander yoghurt |
| Half Moon | Brighton | Burnt potato broth with steak tartare |
| Skinny Dog | Kew | Crispy potato skin, smoked paprika and rosemary salt with romesco sauce |
| Robbie Burns | Collingwood | Rockling Fritters with Rosmesco Sauce |
| Hawthorn Common | Hawthorn | Potato skin crisps with parsley stalk mayo |
| Green Park Dining | Carlton North | Goats cheese croquette |
| Spud Bar Windsor | Windsor | Chickpea, pumpkin and lentil dahl spud |
- Download Yume on either the App Store or Google Play
- Create an account by choosing a username and password of your choice or by logging in with Facebook
- Open the app at 3pm this Saturday, 5th of March
- Scroll through the list of venues taking part and select one that takes your fancy to view their full list of offers
- Select the offer you want to eat and tap the 'buy' button
- Enter your credit card details and tap 'pay' to finalise your purchase
- Head to the venue behind the delicious dish you have purchased between 3-4pm
- Show the venue your YuMeal Voucher (located in the voucher section of your app)
- Pick up your YuMeal and tap 'Redeem' on your voucher
Is there any benefit to having a referral code? It is asking for one on sign up.